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  • William Boetcker

    Rules for politicians

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Politicians need self-restraint

  • Ronald Reagan

    Examining the Cold War

  • John Marshall

    End taxation to ensure our liberty

  • James Madison

    The ultimate authority lies in an armed populace

  • George Washington

    The sacred obligation of the Constitution

  • James Madison

    Liberty and faction

  • George Washington

    How best to make citizens happy

  • anonymous

    The real danger to America

  • Edward Gibbon

    Protection against monarchs, etc.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Undelegated powers

  • George Washington

    The best form of government

  • Ann Coulter

    Liberal treachery

  • George Washington

    Dangerous servant and fearful master

  • anonymous

    The Five Wisdoms of politics

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Where to place your confidence

  • John Locke

    Virtue

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Liars and thieves

  • Michael Kinsley

    Healthy humility

  • Eric Holder

    Frank discussion needed

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake